News & Notes Volume XI, No. 50
May 26, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
Gold Certificates
- Gold Certificates (Bureau of Engraving and Printing). Pdf at link. From 2013.
- Gold Certificates 1863-1933 (uspapermoney.org). Gallery of issued notes.
- Thomas Hart Benton on the $100 Gold Certificates of 1882 and 1922 (Stack's Bowers). From 2014.
- Gold Certificates from the Dauer Gallery (PMG). And the Jupiter Gallery (PMG).
- Friedberg 1225 - the Series 1900 $10,000 (PMG). From 2012.
- Act of 1863 Gold Certificates (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2021.
- $100,000 Gold Certificates (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2014.
- The Series of 1905 Technicolor $20 Gold Certificate (Stack's Bowers). From 2024.
- The Series of 1907 $1000 Gold Certificate (Stack's Bowers). From 2024.
Currency Coming and Going
- Egypt denies plans to issue a 10,000 pound note (Daily Beirut).
- The lines will be long to redeem Denmark's soon-to-expire banknotes (Danmarks Nationalbank).
- Rwanda's "quietly disappearing old banknotes" (KT Press).
- The Jordanian dinar in Gaza (Sada Business).
- Bank Clerks in 19th Century Britain (The Tontine Coffee House).
- The Museum of Money, Dallas, TX (Atlas Obscura).
The Business of Collecting
- A $7 continental currency note with Taft family provenance (Coinweek).
- Bosnia and Herzogovina's Jovan Dučić (Banknote World).
- Series of 1874 Legal Tender Notes (Stack's Bowers).
- Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone (Banknote World).
- Rare Iraqi Saddam Hussein specimen notes up for auction (Numismatic News). Also here (E-Sylum).
- Selections from the upcoming Caine Collection auction (E-Sylum).
- President Ali Hassan Mwinyi on Tanzanian money (Banknote World).
- A look at the upcoming Baltimore Expo (Greysheet).
- Germany's cartographer Sebastian Münster on its 100 mark note (Banknote World).
New Banknote Issues
- Scotland to commemorate World Cup participation (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (BBC).
- Colombia may issue banknote honoring Toto la Momposina (Colombia One).
- New Belarussian 200 rubles banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Lebanon plans larger denomination currency (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Guatemala's 100 quetzal commemorative note (Banknote News). Also here (Geldscheine-online, in German).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Greater Jacksonville Coin Club Show, Jacksonville, FL, May 28-30 (GJCC).
- West Georgia Coin Show, Carrollton, GA, May 29-30 (Coinzip).
- Southern Idaho Coin Club Show, Garden City, ID, May 29-30 (SICC).
- Latin American Coin Show, NYC, May 29-30 (Coinzip).
- Midwest Gold and Silver Coin Show, Sioux Falls, SD, May 30-31 (AMA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
May 30
May 31
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- CGB Auction, May 26 (CGB Numismatique).
- Noonans World Banknote Auction, May 27 (Noonans Mayfair).
- Archives International Auction 113, May 27 (AIA).
- Stack's Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 28 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's World Collectors Choice Auction, June 2 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 3 (Stack's Bowers).
- Trigometric June 2026 Auction, June 6 (Trigometric).
- The Black Hills Collection of Paper Money, June 7 (GreatCollections).
- Heritage Spring Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, June 14 (HA).
- Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16 (HA).
- Stack's Hong Kong Collectors Choice Auction, June 22 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Hong Kong Premier Collectors Choice Auction, June 23 (Stack's Bowers).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 28-30 (PAN)
- Baltimore Summer Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 11-13 (Whitman Expos).
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).
- World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh, PA, August 25-29 (ANA).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- KOMSCO Launches 'Sangpyeong Tongbo Money Keyring' Infused with Wealth Symbolism (Seoul Economic Daily).
- Nanocrystals and banknote security (BW Education).
- Spectra System's anti-counterfeiting sensor contract (Globe and Mail).
- Banknotes and security technology (IT Briefs).
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- High Security Printing-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 1-3, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
- Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Forum).
From the Annals of Crime
- Platinum counterfeits of gold coins (Coinweek).
- Fake silver coins on Ebay (NBC Connecticut).
- Nepal's central bank gets tough on "smoky" currency redemptions (Republica).
- Naira anti-counterfeiting deterrence (Apex News).
Websites to Like
(in no particular order)
- Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads)
- Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library)
- Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum)
- The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
- The Souvenir Card Collectors Society
- New York Toll Script and Tokens (Collector website)..
- The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
- International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
- The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
- The Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
- Cigar History Museum's coupon gallery
- Boordgeld (Dutch ships' money)
- Depression Scrip (emergency money of the 1930s, and more)
- Wisconsin Depression Scrip
- Caishen's Temple-Asia Money
- Elkader Auction House
- Minnesota Nice
- The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
- COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
- MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
- Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
- Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
- Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
- Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
- Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
- Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
- My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip")
- Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
- Scotsbanknotes
- Cash Essentials (Industry website devoted to promoting cash usage).
- Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
- PYMNTS.com (Industry website).
- Currency Research (Industry website).
- International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
- De La Rue (Company website).
- Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
- Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
- Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
- Where's George? (currency tracking project).
- Banknoter
- Numismondo
- CoinsWeekly, numismatic website run by Ursula Kampmann. German-language version is here. Content is not identical.
- Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
- AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
- Monnaies Locales Complementaires
- Our Money (Eurozone currency).
- The Ephemera Society of America (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics)
- A Library of Scrip and Local Currency
- Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
- Pakistani Currency
